AfterRaise/Weekly/Week 26, 2026

The AfterRaise week

Week 26, 2026

79 rounds, $6.9B of announced capital. The largest: Stegra raised €1.4B. Sorted by size; every figure links to its source.

FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Stegra
€1.4B · Undisclosed · Stockholm, Sweden · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised €1.4B, led by a Wallenberg Investments-led consortium including IMAS.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
CuspAI
$450M · Series B · Cambridge, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $450M in Series B funding, led by Co-founders Dr.

The company said the funding supports scale its high-performance computational infrastructure, expand its advanced materials research divisions, and accelerate the commercialization of its molecular design platform.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Nearfield Instruments
$380M · Series D · Rotterdam, Netherlands · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $380M in Series D funding, led by Fidelity Management and Research Company.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its innovation roadmap, expand production capacity, strengthen its global customer support organization, and deepen collaborative R&D with semiconductor manufacturers.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Ollin Biosciences
$330M · Series B · Austin, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $330M in Series B funding, led by new investor TCGX and ARCH Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports support global Phase 3 trials of OLN324, a potential VEGF/Ang2 antibody addressing causes of vision loss in the $15 billion retina market Founded in 2023, Ollin Biosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to acquiring and developing therapies for vision-threatening diseases.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Airwallex
$320M · Series H · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $320M in Series H funding, led by Addition.

The company said the funding supports accelerate product development across autonomous finance and agentic commerce, expand its infrastructure and regulatory footprint into new markets, and continue scaling the teams building its new AI native financial software.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
TeraWatt Infrastructure
$300M · Debt · San Francisco, USA · Logistics & Mobility
What changed

Raised $300M in Debt funding, led by RBC Capital Markets.

The company said the funding supports fund the acquisition, development, and expansion of its purpose-built autonomous vehicle (AV) and commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging depots across the United States.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Peregrine Technologies
$250M · Series D · San Francisco, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $250M in Series D funding, led by existing investors.

The company said the funding supports support continued investment in product development, expansion of its engineering and implementation teams, international growth, and a liquidity opportunity for employees.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Mirendil
$200M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $200M in Seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

The company said the funding supports secure high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) compute clusters, expand its specialized scientific data-ingestion repositories, and aggressively recruit elite machine learning researchers and computational scientists.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Osanni Bio
$190M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $190M in Series B funding, led by Patient Square Capital.

The company said the funding supports advance its current pipeline of multiple programs and scale its discovery and development process.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Upscale AI
$190M · Series A · Santa Clara, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $190M in Series A funding, led by Premji Invest.

The company said the funding supports scale the business and accelerate delivery of its advanced AI-native networking technology.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Bionyra Pharma
$165M · Series A · USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $165M in Series A funding, led by Jeito Capital and Sofinnova Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its R&D efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Solar
$125M · Debt · Asbury Park, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $125M in Debt funding, led by M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB).

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Assort Health
$120M · Series C · San Francisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $120M in Series C funding, led by Menlo Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
RQ Bio
£86M · Series A · London, UK · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised £86M in Series A funding, led by Frazier Life Sciences.

The company said the funding supports support clinical development of lead programme RQB01 designed to provide seasonal influenza protection with a single administration Led by CEO Mike Westby, RQ Bio is a biotechnology company developing long-acting monoclonal antibodies against seasonal influenza with the goal of providing immediate, powerful, and long-lasting protection against severe viral disease in immunocompromised and high-ris.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Taktile
$110M · Series C · NYC, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $110M in Series C funding, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

The company said the funding supports further enhance its AI solutions for complex banking and insurance use cases, and expand its global footprint across the US, EMEA, and LATAM.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Trase
$107M · Seed · McLean, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $107M in Seed funding, led by ARCH Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its corporate go-to-market teams, scale its engineering presence, and accelerate the core development of its proprietary operating system, "Trase Origin." Led by Co-founder and CEO Grant Verstandig alongside President Baskar Sridharan, Trase develops an AI-native operating system engineered to build, run, and govern secure AI agents across cloud, on-premises, and edge infrastructures for hi.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Scaled Cognition
$100M · Series A · Mountain View, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $100M in Series A funding, led by Khosla Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Runpod
$100M · Undisclosed · Newark, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $100M, led by Summit Partners.

The company said the funding supports invest in the platform and developer experience, expand the team across engineering and developer relations.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Cadence
$100M · Series C · NYC, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $100M in Series C funding, led by Spark Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its expansion across new health systems, advancement of its AI agents, and growth in value-based care models.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Engram
$98M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $98M.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Redo
$81M · Series B · Draper, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $81M in Series B funding, led by Smash Capital.

The company said the funding supports support product development, artificial intelligence initiatives, and its international expansion.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Sail Research
$80M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $80M in Series A funding, led by Kleiner Perkins.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
fomo
$75M · Series B · NYC, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $75M in Series B funding, led by Index Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand into additional asset classes, including equities, perpetuals, and prediction markets, while continuing to invest in its broader trading and social platform.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Nura Bio
$74M · Series B · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $74M in Series B funding, led by The Column Group.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the development of the clinical pipeline, including the Phase 1b/2a study of NB-4746, its oral, brain-penetrant SARM1 inhibitor, which recently commenced dosing in ALS patients.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Oblenio Bio
$62M · Series B · Cambridge, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $62M in Series B funding, led by Pfizer Ventures.

The company said the funding supports the initial clinical development of LBL-051, its tri-specific T-cell engager, designed to achieve a broad immune system reset to treat patients suffering from a range of refractory autoimmune diseases.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Warp
$60M · Series B · New York City, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $60M in Series B funding, led by Battery Ventures.

The company said the funding supports invest in deeper AI agents, expand its automated tax and compliance infrastructure, and scale its in-person workforce in New York from 50 to 200 employees over the next year.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Patronus AI
$50M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $50M in Series B funding, led by Greenfield Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its research organization, grow its software engineering teams, and acquire the computational infrastructure required to scale its digital simulation environments.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Partly
$50M · Series B · Austin, USA · Logistics & Mobility
What changed

Raised $50M in Series B funding, led by DST Global Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its official market expansion into the United States, scale its corporate footprint in the Austin region, and actively recruit talent across its engineering, business development, and product management divisions.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Arca
$48M · Series A · NYC, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $48M in Series A funding, led by General Catalyst.

The company said the funding supports help grow its client base, expand its advisory team, and continue to develop its platform and brand.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
xCures
$46M · Series B · Oakland, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $46M in Series B funding, led by Innovius Capital.

The company said the funding supports support the continued expansion of the clinical clarity layer to turn fragmented medical records into decision-ready clinical data.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Vedana Therapeutics
$46M · Series A · Seattle, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $46M in Series A funding, led by Westlake BioPartners and Canaan Partners.

The company said the funding supports advance its portfolio of antibodies targeting clinically validated pathways for migraine prevention.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Leyden Labs
$40M · Undisclosed · Leyden, Netherlands · Cybersecurity
What changed

Raised $40M, led by European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Probook
$40M · Series A · New York City, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $40M in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and a $6m seed round led by Sequoia Capital.

The company said the funding supports scale its go-to-market operations to meet surging demand, expand its software engineering capabilities, and grow its customer success teams to manage national deployments.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Allium
$40M · Series B · NYC, USA · Crypto & Web3
What changed

Raised $40M in Series B funding, led by Amplify Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Isometric
$40M · Series A · London, UK · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $40M in Series A funding, led by AVP (AXA Venture Partners).

The company said the funding supports expand its agentic compliance software across the broader industrial economy, accelerate global market expansion, and scale its specialized engineering and regulatory audit teams.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
NorthLinks Bio
$34M · Undisclosed · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $34M.

The company said the funding supports advance its lead intranasal prophylactic antiviral candidate toward Phase 2b readiness, expand its proprietary glycan-targeted platform, support ongoing manufacturing operations, and establish its primary corporate infrastructure in the United States.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Hang Ten Systems
$32M · Seed · Palo Alto, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $32M in Seed funding, led by Mayfield.

The company said the funding supports build its team and expand its work with global enterprises.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Astral Systems
£23M · Series A · Bristol, UK · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised £23M in Series A funding, led by Mercia Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Runlayer
$30M · Series A · NYC, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $30M in Series A funding, led by Felicis.

The company said the funding supports expand operaitons and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Prosper AI
$30M · Series A · NYC, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $30M in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

The company said the funding supports expand its engineering and customer-facing teams, deepen integrations across the largest EHR platforms, and accelerate adoption across provider groups and health systems.

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